PAUL RYAN SIDES WITH HILLARY: SHELVES BILL TO DEREGULATE FIREARM SUPPRESSORS
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Two days after an attacker opened fire on concert goers in
Las Vegas, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) announced he was shelving
legislation to deregulate suppressors.
After the Vegas attacker killed at least 59 and wounded over 500, Hillary Clinton tweeted:
The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 2, 2017
Clinton’s tweet ignores the reality of the tactical superiority of
the attacker’s position–he was on the 32nd floor shooting down on people
who were trapped in a concert venue. To escape they had to funnel
through exit areas, which further highlighted the attacker’s superior
position. Yet Clinton thinks it would have been worse if his gun had had
a “silencer”–i.e., a suppressor–on it.
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republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
When House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was asked on Tuesday about the
status of the “suppressor” legislation (Sportsmen’s Heritage and
Recreational Enhancement Act), which had passed a House committee last
month and was headed for a vote on the floor, Ryan was disingenuous:
“That bill is not scheduled now. I don’t know when it’s going to be
scheduled.” Ryan’s response was disingenuous because, as speaker of the
house, he is the one responsible for scheduling such votes.
RINO Representative Chris Collins (a Republican from New York with a
Freedom Index rating of just 53 out of 100), agreed: “I think it is safe
to say in our Republican conference, you are not going to see those
bills [the ‘suppressor’ bill or the national reciprocity bill] moving
forward.”
When pressed, the president himself said that that conversation will
be delayed for the time being: “We’ll be talking about gun laws as time
goes by.” Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Sanders, made the point even
clearer: “Today [Tuesday] is more, again, like I said, a day of
reflection, a day of mourning, a day of gratefulness for those [who]
were saved. I think there will certainly be a time for that policy
discussion to take place, that that’s not the place that we’re in at
this moment. Certainly, I think there’s a time for that to happen
[later].”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said bringing these
two bills to the floor for a vote in the House “is premature,” while
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) celebrated the GOP’s
leadership’s decision to kill the bills:
after this shooter was they could look [sic] for the sound, try to hear
the sound of where the guns [sic] came from. Thank God our colleagues on
the other side of the aisle have pulled back on this [suppressor] bill.
This is the second time the suppressor bill has been delayed: The
first time was following the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve
Scalise in June. Whether intended by the Las Vegas shooter or not, he
has successfully killed any chance of either bill coming to the House
floor for a vote in the near future.
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/10/why-republican-politicians-ignore-gun-owners/#axzz4upkzRZcW